Dual Screen TV and Gaming

[Buddyd]

Is it possible to have both my media center program running full screen on my right monitor and a full screen game on my left monitor?

When I try running this now when the game loads up it seems to shift the image off of my right monitor. Then I tried setting it up so my right monitor is set below my left in the windows properties window and as soon as the game is loaded the video on my right monitor would freeze up.

Is this a limit of my hardware or is it not possible? If I upgraded, built a new computer with up-to-date components would I be able to do this?

so what I am trying to do again is this:

-------- ----------
| full | | full |
| screen | | Screen |
| game | | Video |
--------- ----------
Left monitor Right Monitor

Right now I'm on a dell inspiron 9300 laptop (4 years old) with:
Pentium M 1.86 ghz (single core)
Nvidia Geforce Go 6800
2gb Ram
160 gb 7200 rpm hardrive

 

[Intexity]

I think that your hardware is to blame. If you look at my configuration I was able to watch a movie full screen on my left monitor using jet audio (gave up window media years ago) and play COD World at War with no conflicts.

 

[mpilchfamily]

It shifts the image may be due to a difference in the resolution the gaming is using and the native resolution of the monitor.

 

[Buddyd]

It seems my graphics card is not capable of handling two full screen video applications at the same time. I was more just looking for confirmation that with up-to-date components I would be able to do this and it sounds as if I can.

thank you both for your replies.

 

[Ausm]

I ran into this problem running dual monitors on my own setup. I found out that for some reason my primary monitor was not running at the right resolution. Once I set the monitor to the correct resolution, in the case it was 1650 X 1050 and also the game to 1650 X 1050 then it quit "running off" onto my seconary monitor. It works sweet now!